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Albert Lionel Frederick Rivet (1915–1993), archaeologist and cartographer,

30/11/2021

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On This Day 30 November 1915 " Leo" Frederick Rivet was born in Streatham

Albert Lionel Frederick Rivet (1915–1993), archaeologist and cartographer, was born at 22 Penistone Road, the only son and second surviving child of Albert Robert Rivet (1879–1955), a paint and glass manufacturer, and his wife, Rose Mary Bulow (1880–1960), a teacher.

From 1923 to 1929 he attended Falconbury preparatory school, Purley, whence he gained a scholarship to Felsted School, and in 1934 he entered Oriel College, Oxford, to read literae humaniores (Greats).

In January 1946 there seemed little prospect of Rivet's resuming archaeological studies and he turned to bookselling, at first in Cambridge with Deighton, Bell & Co. and later independently at Crowborough, Sussex, still with the hope of pursuing archaeology in his spare time.

In 1952 Rivet began his career as a full-time archaeologist by securing the post of assistant archaeology officer in the Ordnance Survey. During his thirteen years at the Ordnance Survey, at first in Chessington, Surrey, but from 1958 in the newly established sub-office in Edinburgh, Rivet was responsible for the production of historical period maps, a series inaugurated by O. G. S. Crawford, the survey's first archaeology officer, with a Map of Roman Britain that appeared in 1924, and in a second edition in 1928.

In 1964, by now a senior figure in British archaeology, Rivet resigned from the survey and took an appointment as lecturer in classics at Keele University in Staffordshire. After ten years (1974) he was appointed to a personal chair in Roman provincial studies (exclusion of archaeology was at his own request), which he held until his retirement in 1981
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(JJWilkes and Photo ©British Academy)
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"A NEW GOLF CLUB FOR LONDONERS" The Streatham Golf Club on Tooting Bec Common.

30/11/2021

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From the Sporting Life On This Day Wednesday 30 November 1892 "A NEW GOLF CLUB FOR LONDONERS" Streatham Golf Club on Tooting Bec Common.

At the last meeting of the London County Council it was resolved to allow golf to be played over Tooting and Clapham Commons under certain regulations. These are of a very restrictive character. One is that after eight o'clock a.m. every player must engage a fore-caddie to display a red flag. No play is allowed after ten a.m. on any Saturday throughout the year, or on any other day during the months from March to October.


Play is permitted until noon daily (except Saturday) during the four remaining months. A new club to be called the "Streatham Golf Club" has just been formed to take advantage of the permission to play thus given by the County Council, and already the number of applications for admission is most encouraging. A feature of the club, which will distinguish it from other golfing clubs about London, is that it has been resolved to admit ladies to the membership."
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Peter Rachman

29/11/2021

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On This Day 29 November 1962 Peter Rachman died- he was once the principal shareholder of the Streatham Hill Theatre

Peter [Perec] Rachman (1920?–1962), racketeer, was born at Lwów, Poland, son of David Rachman, a dental surgeon, who, together with his wife, vanished in the holocaust. After the Nazi invasion of Poland, Rachman was forced onto a road-building chain-gang and later captured by Russians, who starved him. He arrived in Britain as a stateless person about 1945–6. He endured menial jobs (including dishwashing at Bloom's kosher restaurant in Whitechapel) before setting up as a flat-letting agent.
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He became the principal shareholder in Streatham Hill Playhouse Ltd which sold the Streatham Hill Theatre for £200,000 and contracted to buy the Golders Green Hippodrome for £130,000.
(Oxford DNB)
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Fred Fowle

29/11/2021

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​Fred Fowle, a fairground artist at R J Larkin at Eardley Road Streatham died On This Day 29th November 1983. He lived locally in Balham
A filmic encounter with Futuristic Fred, Britain's most revered fairground artist. Captured at work decorating a ride in his studio in Streatham, London, Fred Fowle (1914-1983) pays tribute to the cinema posters, adverts and graphic novels that inspired his designs. His signature vibrant, three-dimensional style has been widely celebrated and chimes with the current resurgence of traditional steam-powered fairground rides.
https://player.bfi.org.uk/.../watch-our-business-is-fun...
other images Betterletters and Jack Leeson
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Andre Morell in Romeo and Juliet

28/11/2021

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On This Day 28th November 1978 Cecil André Mesritz, known professionally as André Morell died. An actor who appeared at the Streatham Hill Theatre in 1939 in Romeo and Juliet as Mercuitio
The production included
Max Adrian
Robert Donat
Constance Cummings
Marie Ney
Stewart Granger
Sonia Dresdel
Andrew Cruickshank
André Morell
Newspaper article Image © Illustrated London News Group
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John Galliano

28/11/2021

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On This Day 28 November 1960 John Galliano was born. The family lived in Streatham

John Charles Galliano CBE, RDI is a Gibraltar-born British fashion designer who was the head designer of French fashion companies Givenchy (July 1995 to October 1996), Christian Dior (October 1996 to March 2011), and his own label John Galliano (1988 to 2011).
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He was born in Gibraltar to a Gibraltarian father, Juan Galliano, and a Spanish mother, Anita Guillén, and has two sisters. Galliano's father was a plumber. His family moved to England in pursuit of work when Galliano was six, and settled in Streatham, before moving to Dulwich
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Magdalen Hospital

27/11/2021

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On This Day 27 November 1869 the Architect and Contract Reporter contained the following :

The Magdalen Hospital is the oldest institution of its kind, was founded in 1758 and has hitherto been located in the Blackfriars Road. For many years the removal of the institution from the Blackfriars Road has been moored, but the Governors shrank from so serious and expensive an undertaking until concurrent circumstances shoul seem to render it imperative.

In 1863 HM Charity Commissioner's made a careful inquiry into the working of the institution, which resulted in a recommendation that the Governors should take early steps to remove the same to a healthy suburban situation, and then dispose of the buildings and site. Six acres of land were bought in the Laingham Court Road West (Drewstead Road) and the present hospital has been erected thereon.
The building is designed to accomodate 140 penitents with a central administrative department, a detached infirmary, chaplains house and chapel

In arranging the plan the idea has been to separate and classify the inmates as much as possible, giving to each ward of 15 its distinct occupation in all domestic duties such as cooking, washing etc. The multiplication of kitchen and laundry arrangements has necessarily added to the cost, but the system was considered to be so advantageous that the Governors have not hesitated to carry it into effect
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Source Architecture in London
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Professor Robert Bartlett

27/11/2021

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On This Day 27 November 1950 Professor Robert Bartlett was born in Streatham- the family lived at 21 Salford Road

Robert Bartlett, CBE, FBA, FRSE is an English historian and medievalist. He currently holds the position of Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History at the University of St Andrews.

After attending Battersea Grammar School in Streatham (1962 to 1969), he studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge, St John's College, Oxford and Princeton University as a Jane Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow
In 2010, he wrote and presented The Normans on the BBC, a documentary series about their wide-ranging impact on Britain, countries of the Mediterranean and as far afield as the Holy Land.
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In 2014, he presented the BBC documentary series The Plantagenets, about the eponymous royal dynasty.
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November 26th, 2021

26/11/2021

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Professor Trevor William Robbins FRS was born On This Day 26th November 1949. He attended Battersea Grammar in Abbotswood Road and Jesus College Cambridge

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Head of the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge.

Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Royal Society. He has published over 600 peer-reviewed papers and 70 chapters in scientific journals and has co-edited 6 books.

Robbins a keen chess player, represented both England Juniors in 1967 and the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate. He was once ranked in the top twenty players in England. His 1970 Varsity match was featured on 1 March 2015 in the Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chess-fbj3673pzk0
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The 150th anniversary book by Martin Smith of the Streatham and Brixton Chess Club covers Trevor Robbins and other players from BGS
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Air Vice-Marshal John Chegwyn Thomas Downey

26/11/2021

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Air Vice-Marshal John Chegwyn Thomas Downey, CB, DFC, AFC was born On This Day 26 November 1920, a senior commander in the Royal Air Force born at 151 Gleneldon Road


Telegraph obituary extracts 2 May 2010
Downey was born at Streatham on November 26 1920 and educated at Whitgift. On leaving school he immediately volunteered for pilot training with the RAF, gaining his wings just before his 19th birthday.
He spent the early days of the war flying Ansons on patrols over the North Sea before leaving for Gibraltar in September 1941 to join No 202 Squadron, whose Catalinas had the job of preventing enemy shipping and submarines from entering the Mediterranean and of monitoring the Vichy French Fleet in Algerian ports.

After a series of appointments as an instructor, in May 1944 Downey joined No 224 Squadron. With D-Day imminent, the squadron concentrated on cutting the transit routes in and out of the French Atlantic ports. In September Downey and his crews moved to Milltown in Morayshire, and turned their attention to the Norwegian coast.

He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his 224 Squadron service.
Downey commanded Aries III, a modified Lincoln bomber, when it took off on October 20 1950 on a round-the-world flight of 29,000 miles.
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The Lincoln took 14 hours 26 minutes to reach Khartoum – a record that stood for five years until beaten by a Comet airliner. Downey then headed for Mauritius before taking off on a direct flight to Perth, Western Australia; this was believed to be the first west-to-east non-stop flight across the Indian Ocean. After crossing Australia, Aries III headed over the Pacific for the United States, arriving back in England after a flight that had lasted a total of 28 days. Downey was awarded an AFC
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